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the G-man said:


Plame's undercover status at the time was and is a little questionable in any case. How undercover could she have been when her name was published at the time as part of Joseph Wilson's own biography online (see cpsag.com/our_team/wilson.html)?





It's true that we don't KNOW with certainty that Plame is covered. But, the application of common sense is not against the law or fair contemplation one hopes.

Common sense tells me that 2 years into the investigation, the Plame prosecutor would have gathered enough facts to make such a determination. Seems a simple enough question. Heck, to me 2 hours seems sufficient. Served overseas? Check. In the last five years? Well, the CIA would know that one hopes. And the CIA referred the case to Justice. My application of common sense tells me that the answer is probably yes. Not enough? How about this:


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The CIA declined to discuss Plame's intelligence work, but an agency official disputed suggestions that she was a mere analyst whose public exposure would have little consequence. "If she was not undercover, we would have no reason to file a criminal referral," the CIA official said, insisting on anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation.

Justice launches probe into CIA leak





Don't know about G-Man, but the CIA official makes sense to me.

Also, isn't Fitzgerald's investigation ultimately premised on the supposition that a crime took place, the crime being the revealing of a covert agents identity? Wasn't this one pretty much already a given?

G-Man?

This article brings up some good facts on Plame and her undercover status.

If this really was an accident and Rove did not know Plame was covert, what did he do after Novak's column came out and it was obvious there was a problem? Did he go to the president and apologize? Did he explain fully how he learned Plame worked at the CIA at all, to help figure out who leaked the info to Rove?

No. He called Chris Matthews to say "Wilson's wife is fair game!"

Not much of an apology in my book.
















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Excerpt from George H Bush's Speech April 26th, 1999 at the dedication of George Bush Center for Intellegence Gathering.

"…we need more protection for methods we use to gather Intel. That means more protection for our sources particularly our human sources. These are people who are risking their lives for their country. Even though I am a tranquil guy at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those you betray the trust by exposing the names of our sources. They are in my in my view the most insidious of traitors."







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